Barbara Kingsolver: Цитаты на английском языке
“She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.”
Источник: Animal Dreams
“Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.”
Источник: The Poisonwood Bible
“God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.”
Источник: The Poisonwood Bible
“What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.”
Источник: Animal Dreams
“The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.”
Источник: Small Wonder
“The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.”
Источник: The Poisonwood Bible
“In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.”
Источник: The Bean Trees
“Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.”
Источник: Animal Dreams
“The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.”
Источник: The Lacuna
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”
Источник: Homeland and Other Stories
“It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.”
Источник: The Poisonwood Bible